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14 PEER ~~ WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1924 - Winnetka Weekly Talk y LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill Telephone .........oevs: Winnetka 388 Telephone ar td sh» fo lye e Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accom- panied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication should reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of en- tertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Entered at the postoffice at Winnet- ka, Illinois, as mail matter of the sec- ond class, under the act of March 3, 1879. " SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1924 Depress the Tracks. . Give the Business Men Fair Play. Build a New Village Hall. Enforce the Traffic Laws. Build the Truck Road. HOW TO USE LIFE When the baby first sees the light of earthly day he does not ask the question, Is life worth living? but, What shall I do with it? He does not at once pro- ceed to criticize life but begins immediately to figure how he can best use it. He finds himself cast up on a foreign shore and in- stantly takes advantage of his - opportunities. He comes into the world a bundle of dynamic energies. These energies develop them- selves by feeding on people and things, and the child grows nto a creature of habit. Being human, and therefore fallible, he can't make the best of his possi- bilities. But with the more or less good help of his parents he manages to eke out a living. The proper retort, then, to the question, Is life worth living? is that the question is impertinent. The pertinent question is, How shall the surroundings, physical and social, be used so as to bring about in the individual, formation of the best habits? And this is the hardest question in the world to answer. Older people must, tol, a certain degree, answer for the young. But as one grows older he must answer it for himself. It will be admitted that many people, if not most, have little success if trying to make the best of life. They muddle along, taking things pretty much as they come. We believe that scientific think- ing is the best help in the enter- prise of living. WEATHER It ought to be quite plain by this time that the weather was not made for man. At least the weather in this general neighbor- hood. The mercurial ups and downs of January conclusively prove that the weather may have been made for non-human beings but not for poor, sensitive man. Even water can range from thirty-two to two hundred and twelve and make no fuss. But, man, this little bundle of unstable chemical elements and mysterious something else, can tolerate in silence only a temperature with extremes separated fifty or sixty degrees, and: that only with the help of fire and clothes. We were. unusually worried by the worst of these recent sub- zero spells. The tragic thought occurred to us that perhaps the ice age was returning, that the Arctic Circle was stealing a march on the more temperate latitudes. Today the ice and snow are thawing. Tomorrow the water pipes will be frozen. Wotta life! | LIFE LINES After a northbound Northwest- ern train has come to a stop at the Wilmette station many people, both men and women, alight on the east side of the train, the side nearer the station itself. This is a dangerous prac- tice: Often switch engines are using the southbound track, to say nothing of regular trains. We have seen and heard a con- ductor warn a woman against getting off on that side, but she paid no heed to him. If you MUST get off on that dangerous side, for your family's "and friends' sake, BE CAREFUL! Almost $1300 in the N. T. Band Fund! Only $700 more needed te enable the bandboys and girls to buy those becoming uniforms. SPALDING CAMEL HAIR COLLAR SLIPOVER SWEATERS PURE WORSTED, EXTRA HEAVY REGULAR PRICE $16.00 SPECIAL SALE PRICE $11.25 - TOQUES A NEW STOCK JUST RECEIVED Chandler's < fountain Square PR EVANS TON { NORTH SHO LINE Courtesy LAYING FOUNDATIONS DOUGLAS H. CORNELL (Pastor, Glencoe Union Church) Pondering the matter of a 'Religious Editorial" my thought flies to a fundamental question concerning which Fundamentalist and Modernist can have no differing opinions. I allude to the religious education of children, which, being amplified, means leading our children voluntarily to choose to live with God rather than to live without Him. That, I take it, is the ardent hope of every Christian parent, and I believe, also, that many parents of little or no religious conviction covet for their. children a clear understanding at least, if not a profound faith in the Christian teaching of God. Few parents have the hardihood to deprive their children of that which the best of men have counted most valuable. A candid survey of life can hardly leave a reason- able and honorable person other than convinced that life without God is perilous and futile. Fame and fortune without God is vanity. Pain and misfortune without God is meaningless mockery. : Less than a Seer can point out that we who live in this local- ity enjoy great material privileges, and possibly moral and spir- itual advantages as well. If I suggest a shade of doubt as to the moral and spiritual it is because from time immemorial man has found in prosperity a menace to spirituality. Men, well provided for, tend to forget Providence. I am still thinking of children, our children, and the possibility that we may be so busy making and spending money and enjoying our social advantages that we may forget the religious education of our children. I hazard the guess that a majority of our substantial North Shore residents owe their success to early religious training in Christian homes of humble means and hard work, supplemented by the inadequate but invaluable teaching of the Church and Bible School. The danger now is that the children of these same people may be denied these same advantages, namely, the atmosphere of a rev- erent home, the tonic of necessity, and the teaching of a Church and Bible School. Looking level eyed then at our advantages and disadvantages we have it within our power to develop here a breed of men and women who shall be the staunch religious leaders along every avenue of human endeavor leading into the future. There is no more favored region in the world. The brains are here; the money is here; the culture is here; the educational advantages are here; the physical beauty and social environment is here; and the churches are here; now more than all these is needed the desire and determination of parents to lay deep and strong in the hearts of their children a foundation of vital faith in the living God. Is that here? Is this not for us one of the most vital questions to consider? It is an individual, a family, and a regional issue not only, but also a national, international and eternal issue because the lives of our boys and girls of today will touch all shores tomorrow. The Charles A. Coffin Medal awarded to the North Shore Line for distinguished contri- bution to the develop- ment of electrical transportation for the convenience of the public and the benefit of the industry. ATURAL COURTESY, rather than studied efforts to please, characterizes the contact of North Shore Line employees with the public. The proof of this is in the many letters of commendation received from patrons, of which the fol- lowing is typical: "I am writing to commend the courtesy displayed by the con- ductor on the last car of the noon train out of Chicago. "He seemed to have a pleasant and intelligent answer to the many questions of passengers. He assisted everyone into the diner and saw generally to the comfort of each passenger. This kind of service makes traveling on the North Shore Line a pleasure." Such unsolicited acknowledgments of courtesy of employees is the best evidence of the spirit of service which typifies this organization. Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad Company Winnetka Passenger Station Elm Street Telephone Winnetka 963